The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 131

Then she began to run over the sharp stones, and through the bramble bushes, and the wild beasts ran past her, but they did her no harm.

Who acts: SNOWDROP, wild beasts, beasts · What happens: begin, run, do, harm · To what, where: bramble bushes, sharp stones, harm

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP, wild beasts, beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 stones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stones	det
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bushes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bushes	cc
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 bushes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bushes	det
14	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bushes	compound
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beasts	det
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beasts	amod
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
22	past	past	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ran	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 did	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 did	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 harm	nmod:poss
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 harm	det
30	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	SNOWDROP		the bramble bushes	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run	to-infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here		the sharp stones			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory
3	run	past	the wild beasts				past SNOWDROP	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past she=Trajectory
4	do	past	beasts = beast	SNOWDROP's harm				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
5	harm		SNOWDROP					nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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